4 Films & TV Shows Set In Latvia During The 1910s
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Blizzard of Souls
🇱🇻 Latvia The 1910sThe love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.
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Defenders of Riga
🇱🇻 Latvia The 1910sThe film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
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Coup de Grâce
🇱🇻 Latvia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sA countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
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Menschen ohne Vaterland
🇱🇻 Latvia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1910s
